You can’t always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.
Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
It’s always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it’s too good to be true.
Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.
I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
I wasn’t very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.
And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it’s even more difficult when it seems like it’s the only thing.
Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn’t, not at all.
It was like reaching for someone’s hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.
I’m just writing what I know. I’ve never been much of a reader of fantasy, and I think you write what you, personally, enjoy reading.
It hadn’t even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.
I just do the best I can under the circumstances.
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.
When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it’s sort of natural to wonder why. Right?
I’ve always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight.
This is personal, she’d said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn’t see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.
People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.